All American Anthropologists

Franz Uri Boas (July 9, 1858 - December 21, 1942) was a German-American anthropologist

Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 - November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist.

Alfred Louis Kroeber (June 11, 1876 - October 5, 1960) was an American cultural anthropologist.

Marshall David Sahlins was an American cultural anthropologist best known for his ethnographic work in the Pacific and for his contributions to anthropological theory.

Napoleon Alphonseau Chagnon (27 August 1938-21 September 2019) was an American cultural anthropologist, professor of sociocultural anthropology at the University of Missouri in Columbia and member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Sherry Beth Ortner (born September 19, 1941) is an American cultural anthropologist.

Renato Ignacio Rosaldo (15 April 1941-26 May 2026) was an American cultural anthropologist. He conducted field research among the Ilongots of northern Luzon, Philippines. He served on the faculties of Stanford University and New York University. He also published several collections of his poetry.

Ruth Fulton Benedict (June 5, 1887 - September 17, 1948) was an American anthropologist and folklorist.

Robert Harry Lowie (born Robert Heinrich Löwe; June 12, 1883, September 21, 1957) was an Austrian-American anthropologist. An expert on Indigenous peoples of the Americas, he was instrumental in the development of modern anthropology and has been described as "one of the key figures in the history of anthropology".

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Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891, January 28, 1960) was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker.

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Clyde Kay Maben Kluckhohn (January 11, 1905 in Le Mars, Iowa - July 28, 1960 near Santa Fe, New Mexico), was an American anthropologist and social theorist, best known for his long-term ethnographic work among the Navajo and his contributions to the development of theory of culture within American anthropology.

Robert Redfield (December 4, 1897, October 16, 1958) was an American anthropologist and ethnolinguist, whose ethnographic work in Tepoztlan, Mexico, is considered a landmark of Latin American ethnography.

Lewis Henry Morgan (November 21, 1818 - December 17, 1881) was an American anthropologist and social theorist, who worked as a railroad lawyer.

George Peter Murdock (May 11, 1897, March 29, 1985) was an American anthropologist who was professor at Yale University and University of Pittsburgh.

Sidney Wilfred Mintz (November 16, 1922 - December 27, 2015) was an American anthropologist best known for his studies of the Caribbean, creolization, and the anthropology of food.

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Nancy Dorothy Munn (April 13, 1931, January 20, 2020) was an American anthropologist best known for her work in space and time, value, and world-making.

Nancy Scheper-Hughes (born 1944) is an American anthropologist.

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David Rolfe Graeber (February 12, 1961 - September 2, 2020) was an American anthropologist and anarchist social and political activist.

Arthur Michael Kleinman (born March 11, 1941) is an American psychiatrist, social anthropologist and a professor of medical anthropology, psychiatry and global health and social medicine at Harvard University.

Julian Haynes Steward (January 31, 1902, February 6, 1972) was an American anthropologist known best for his role in developing

Arjun Appadurai FRAI (born 4 February 1949) is an Indian-American anthropologist who has been recognized as a major theorist in globalization studies.

was an American political scientist and anthropologist specialising in comparative politics.

Paul Rabinow, UC Berkeley professor emeritus of anthropology and world-renowned anthropologist, died April 6 at the age of 76 in his Berkeley home.

Sally Falk Moore, mother and grandmother, anthropologist, legal scholar, and Victor S. Thomas Professor Emerita at Harvard University, passed away peacefully at the age of 97 on May 2, 2021 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Laura Nader is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.